Your favorite nations / themes -- and why! please participate!

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I am trying to be as comprehensive here as possible...

For this reason, I am including some voting options for various reasons, including no Favorites and including options for how often you may change your mind, and why.

It is clear to me that for most of us, there is no one single favorite all the time -- this game is just too groovy for such simplicities as that. But please try to see the "favorite" as a form of "Well, this may not be my "favorite", but I sure do play *this* one much more than *that* one...", just a kind of heuristic device.

It would also be great if people could post here some elaborations on their choices.

I am trying to limit the number of choices in the second vote to 5 -- I hope, however, that people will be more selective than that.

I don't know really what to expect, but I do expect at least a few corroborations and conflicts with two earlier polls of mine.... but I'll wait to see the results first.

Thanks very much for participating and for commenting!